US Patent Issued to Altera on Aug. 5 for "Circuits and methods for accessing signals in integrated circuits" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,561, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Circuits and methods for accessing signals in integrated circuits" was invented by Yi Peng (Newark, Calif.), Brandon Gordon (Campbell, Calif.), Mahesh A. Iyer (Fremont, Calif.) and Krishna Nagar (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a monitored circuit and a signal analyzer circuit. The signal analyzer circuit includes a logic circuit that determines if a condition signal satisfies a condition to generate an output signal. A first-in-first-out (FIFO) buffer circuit stores opportunistic data indicated by a monitored sign...